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Stabbing attack terrorist apprehended

An IDF reservist and an Israeli civilian were wounded during the
stabbing attack outside the Samaria Territorial Brigade base in the West
Bank on Thursday afternoon.
The terrorist who carried out a stabbing attack in the West Bank on
Thursday afternoon has been apprehended, following intelligence and
operational activities by the General Security Service, the Border
Police's Counterterrorism Unit (Yamam) and the IDF, the Shin Bet
reported. The assailant, 19, a resident of the village Jamma'in near
Nablus, was transferred to a GSS interrogation.An IDF reservist and an
Israeli civilian were wounded during the stabbing attack carried out by
the Palestinian assailant outside the Samaria Territorial Brigade base
in the West Bank on Thursday afternoon.

The 32 year-old reservist was moderately wounded after being stabbed in
his face and upper body and a 26 year-old Israeli woman was lightly
wounded in her leg by shrapnel from friendly fire. Both victims were
evacuated to Beilinson Hospital fully conscious, reported Magen David
Adom.

According to initial reports in Israeli media, the Palestinian stabbed
the reservist who had been standing at a bus stop near Maskit Junction
between Har Bracha and Itamar in the Shomron. Soldiers and civilians in
the area tried to overcome the assailant, with troops opening fire
towards him as he fled the scene, hitting the civilian.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman praised the operation on his Twitter
account: "Exceptional intelligence and operational work led to the
capture of the terrorist, hours after the attack he carried out at
Shomron Square."

All resources would now return to the main task, which is the capture of
the terrorist from Barkan, who is still on the loose, he wrote."The
account with him will soon be closed as well."

Security forces are still searching for the terrorist who shot two
Israelis to death and moderately wounded a third at the Barkan
Industrial Park on Sunday morning.